The office of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has acknowledged the existence of a protected online forum used to discuss controversial issues about the internet filter, but has appeared to reject forum suggestions from departmental officials that the Government could make it an offence to promote methods of circumventing the filter.
The site is being hosted internally by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE). In screenshots sighted by Delimiter today, ISPs such as Pacific Internet and Webshield - which will be required to implement the scheme if it goes ahead - discuss the filter with un-named departmental officials.
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It wont be made an offence to circumvent a filter. Come on. Who could believe this? Either they just will later when it makes no difference or there's already a law on the books that they'll be able to use to prosecute... something about "using a carriage service" or something obscure.
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